Denmark: 15-year-old jihadi girl wanted to blow up two schools

A 17-year-old girl has been found guilty of planning to blow up two schools: one in Copenhagen and one in Fårevejle. The girl was arrested on the 3rd of January 2016 when she was only 15-years-old.

Eight out of nine jurors in Østre Landsret agreed about the case. In May the girl was already sentenced to six years in jail but both the girl and the district attorney appealed the sentence immediately to the Court of First Instance.

The girl is believed to have been radicalised after a trip to Turkey in the summer of 2015. She wanted to use two powerful bombs to blow up her former school and a Jewish school as a form of ‘jihad against the non-believer’.

The girl is considered highly dangerous and the prosecutor recommended that she remains in custody. The court will make its decision in the coming weeks.